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SvennoJ on 23 November 2012
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Ostro said:
SvennoJ said:

Is it doing anything extra or is it the same as the tv upscaling the image? Why would it look like a stretched out piece of ass, Wii is already in the correct aspect ratio? (I actually set my 360 to 720p output since my tv does a cleaner job of upscaling to 1080p then my old 360)
The Wii has big pixels after the tv upscaling algorithm, nothing mysterious going on there horizontol res x 2 / vertical res x 2.
Does the WiiU add a softening filter after quadrupling the pixels?


I hate that. I like that on the 360 games they put the resolution so you can adjust it in the settings and it won't suffer from any lag or stretching.

I wonder why horizontal res x 2 & vertical res x 2 seems to work here. All of my older consoles look like shit on new TVs because they don't seem to be able to double the signal. It's always stretched and blurry at the edges although very old consoles just output some colors.

The result looks more blurry though on my projector. Letting the 360 output the game in its native res has better results for me. Not too surprising for a projector built to produce the best visuals with all input signals.

It's much different with tvs. They usually upscale in a way that produces overscan. Meaning part of the image is obscured. For example on one tv I have to zoom NFS MW down to 77% to have the borders visible when outputting in 720p.
Older consoles have even bigger problems as they output in 480i over composite video. The Wii looks great over component video cables when outputting in 480p. When I use the regular composite video connector it looks like shit on my HD tv.

Playing Wii games on WiiU over HDMI should not look any different as Wii in 480p with component video cables. Unless the tv screws it up somehow. I guess I got a good one, even my Intellivision that outputs on cable channel 3 looks perfectly sharp with great steady colors. While on the bedroom analog tv its hardly playable with interlace issues, color bleeding etc.

Good to have the option, I'll try out the upscaler when I get a WiiU.